Tuesday, January 1, 2013

At the center of the Galaxy, a planet-sized Machine of
terrifying power and unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a
supermassive black hole. Wesley Crusher, now a full-fledged Traveler, knows the
Machine must be stopped... but he has no idea how. He enlists the help of
Captain Picard and the Enterprise
crew, who also fail to halt the unstoppable alien juggernaut's destructive
labors. But they soon divine the Machine's true purpose, which threatens to
exterminate all life in the Milky Way Galaxy. With time running out, Picard
realizes he knows of only one person who might be able to stop the Machine in
time to avert a galactic catastrophe–but he has no idea how to find him.

Located far beyond the boundaries of explored space, the Goeg Domain is a
political union of dozens of planets and races. When the U.S.S. Enterprise
arrives in its territory to investigate an interstellar phenomenon,
Commander Laspas of the Domain Defense Corps is at first guarded, then
fascinated to discover the existence of an alliance of worlds much like
his own, and finds a kindred spirit in Captain James T. Kirk. And when
the Enterprise is attacked by the Domain’s enemies, crippling the
starship’s warp capability and leaving its crew facing the prospect of a
slow, months-long journey home, the Goeg leader volunteers the help of
his own ship, offering to combine the resources of both vessels to bring
the Enterprise to a nearby Domain facility to make the necessary repairs.

But what at first seems to be an act of peace and friendship soon turns out to be a devil’s bargain, as Kirk and the Enterprise
crew learn that there are perhaps more differences than similarities
between the Federation and the Domain. When the Goeg’s adversaries
strike again, the Enterprise is drawn deeper and inexorably into the
conflict, and Kirk begins to realize that they may have allied
themselves with the wrong side…